Bullet train, the symbol of India-Japan brotherhood: Piyush Goyal

Piyush Goyal stated that this partnership would prove to be valuable for India and would also back to the nation’s ‘Make in India’ Mission.

Ahmedabad: Piyush Goyal, Union Railway Minister on Thursday stated that the bullet train is a sign of brotherhood amid people of Japan and India, and will bring significant changes to the nation.

Shinzo Abe, Japanese Prime Minister, and Narendra Modi on Thursday had laid the foundation stone for the recommended Ahmedabad-Mumbai High-Speed Rail Network, recognized as the bullet train, in Ahmedabad on this Thursday.

The distance of 508 km will be enclosed in 2 hours and 7 minutes by the bullet train if it halts at four stations Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat, and Mumbai.

Rendering to the railway ministry administrators, the operating speed of the bullet train will be 320 kilometers in an hour and the supreme speed will be 350 kilometers per hour.

With bullet train, India has become the first to ingress the iconic ‘Shinkansen’ bullet-train expertise after Taiwan. The Japanese Government has also granted to fund the project at nominal interest rates.